REAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN BELARUS SAID TO BE 20 PERCENT.

Officialunemployment in Belarus is now 2 percent, but a senior Belarusiandemographic specialist told Russian television August 21 thatthe actual figure was at least 10 times that. Valentina Ladod’ko,the chief of the Administration of the Organization of the Workplaceat the country’s Occupational Center, said that the majority ofBelarusian unemployed were young people between the ages of 18and 30. She said that unemployment would peak later this yearafter the harvest was completed.

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